Health Psychology, 2nd Edition

partner/best friend thinks about this?’). Again, it is assumed that an individual will only have a limited number of referents i ...

HEALTH COGNITIONS AND BEHAVIOURS 151 Affective attitudes Cognitive attitudes Injunctive norms Subjective norm Intention Behaviou ...

The latter relationship arises because self-efficacy influences the degree to which an individual pays attention to opportunitie ...

time) and maintenance of action (e.g. trying to stay quit). In contrast, in stage models psychological determinants may change a ...

154 MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOUR the con templation stage, while self-efficacy was targeted in individuals in the action stage and t ...

HEALTH COGNITIONS AND BEHAVIOURS 155 a finite set of variables to be considered in any behavioral analysis’ (Fishbein et al., 20 ...

A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF SCMs The use of SCMs to predict health behaviour has a number of advantages and dis - advantages. Below ...

study. For a specific behaviour and population one or more antecedents may indeed not be predictive, without disproving the theo ...

actual range in the population (e.g. if the sample drink more alcohol than the sampled population) then the observed R^2 will un ...

use of SCMs, these findings point to the need for the use of more sophisticated designs to distinguish measurement and predictiv ...

160 MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOUR Implementation intention formation A variety of factors that affect the enactment of intentions hav ...

to form an implementation intention, the person must first identify a response that will lead to goal attainment and, second, an ...

162 MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOUR to suggest that people remain in stable stages of action readiness over time. While SCMs have a num ...

Conner, M. and Sparks, P. (2015). The theory of planned behaviour and the reasoned action approach. In M. Conner and P. Norman ( ...

Chapter 8 Changing motivation 8 CHAPTER PLAN In Chapter 7 we studied cognitions that have been found to differentiate between pe ...

PROVIDING INFORMATION If people become aware of a health risk from a source they perceive to be trustworthy and they also believ ...

Making information accessible and easy to understand Information can only change motivation and behaviour if people can access i ...

54 sources of information, including information leaflets and listened to patients in focus groups to discover what kind of info ...

Organization of information In addition to providing easy to understand information that is wanted by the target audience and pr ...

Visual aids can make written materials easier to understand. For example, an experiment conducted by Kools et al. (2006) showed ...